Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 2 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 3 | That 's why I was head-hunted — in the hope I could do the same for them . ’ |
| 4 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 5 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 6 | I told her she might' get a chance , though of course I would have the ultimate control . |
| 7 | Of course I 'd like the other things , but it 's just not relevant to the relationship . ’ |
| 8 | Of course I could settle the whole thing by opening the cow up , but Mr Bailes was an old-fashioned type and did n't like the idea of my diving into his animal unless I was certain of my diagnosis . |
| 9 | If it were n't for my sister I 'd turn the whole matter over to the police and let them find Garry . ’ |
| 10 | The sea was flat , faintly streaked by a waning moon , and through the porthole of the saloon I could see the Southern Cross and the Milky Way , unblemished by cloud . |
| 11 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 12 | But for my part I would reject the undue influence case on the ground that the influence brought to bear by Mr. O'Brien was not , in the context of a normal husband and wife relationship and bearing in mind Mrs. O'Brien 's character and capabilities , sufficiently undue . |
| 13 | – I dare say that when I strip the tank down in the future I 'll find a mixed colony lurking somewhere in a corner ! |
| 14 | At the end of the chapter I shall make the paradoxical point that the theory we are looking for may actually need to seem improbable , even miraculous , to our subjective judgement ( because of the way our subjective judgement has been made ) . |
| 15 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 16 | In this chapter I shall describe the genital region in man and woman and discuss some aspects of normal sexual function and variations in sexual behaviour |
| 17 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 18 | Then before putting the resolution to the vote I shall say a few words and ask whether , ah , there are any questions . |
| 19 | Through the gap in the fence I could see the red-haired woman hacking away at the tangle of greenery with a large silver blade that flashed in the sun . |
| 20 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Agriculture in Britain has developed a forecasting system based primarily on soil temperature in the early spring which can predict the likely severity of nematodiriasis . |
| 22 | There was much interest in a broadly based Middle Eastern Command which would enlist the willing support of the Arab states . |
| 23 | Among his sacred possessions were an enormous club which could raise the slain to life again ; a magic harp whose music made its listeners forget sorrow ; an inexhaustible cauldron from which no-one is turned away hungry ; and two marvellous sheep — one eternally roasting , the other forever feeding in readiness for slaughter . |
| 24 | The exhibition will also present the first stage of a restoration programme which will cover the 150 photographs displayed . |
| 25 | The company is working with the MLC and other groups to produce a programme which will provide an improved selection index taking account of the inbreeding factor . |
| 26 | 1 Prepare a script which shall meet the following requirements : the complete typescript to make a book of not more than 32 pages a complete list of any textual or illustrative copyrighted material to be included together with full information on source of such material supply a complete art brief for any illustrations required |
| 27 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 28 | The misunderstanding described above was one of five reasons found by the village case study which would explain the low usage rate for the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 29 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 30 | Your Lordships are well aware that the costs of litigation are a subject of general public concern and I personally would not wish to be a party to changing a well established rule which could have a substantial effect in increasing these costs against the advice of the Law Commissions and the Renton Committee unless and until a new inquiry demonstrated that that advice was no longer valid . |